2024 Summer Camp Guide
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Note: Due to COVID-19 health events, summer camp dates and times are subject to change.
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Dates: June 3-7; June 10-14; June 17-21; June 24-28; July 1-5; July 8-12
Where: Tucson Country Day School
Hours: 8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Cost: $210.
Description: Camp Adventure has been a Tucson tradition for over 50 years! Join the Adventure this summer! Days will include Swimming, Archery, Low Ropes Course, Art, STEM, Indoor Games, Music, and Cooking. Off and On Campus Fields Trips Weekly. More..
Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Mandinga CAMP
Dates: May 27-31; July 22-26
Where: Capoeira Mandinga Tucson Academy
Hours: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Cost: Camp price = $225/week. Camp fee covers all camp activities and supplies to give your child a fantastic week of camp: includes art supplies, instruments to play during camp, and costumes for end-of-camp show. Drop-off 9:30 - 10:00 AM is included. Before/After-camp available daily 8:30 - 9:30 AM & 3:00-5:00 PM for extra cost.
Description: PLAY Capoeira. EXPERIENCE Afro-Brazilian culture. CAPOEIRA=Afro-Brazilian martial arts that flows like dance! Build strength, flexibility & confidence in fun, challenging kicks, escapes, cool moves. FEEL RHYTHM of Afro-Brazilian percussion, dance, songs in Portuguese. Playing is Winning!©️ More..
Dates: July 8-12
Where: Children's Museum Tucson
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $200. 200 for 5 days
Description: Animals are capable of amazing feats and jobs! Come learn about the many incredible and important roles that animals have with humans!. More..
Antic Arts Comedic Acting Camp
Dates: June 3-7; June 10-14
Where: Troubadour Theatre
Hours: 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Cost: Per 2 week session, $50 off for early registration
Description: Students will learn about acting, play theatre and improv games, and rehearse a play to be performed live on the last day of camp. All students will receive a role in the play. This year's play is "Marcus is More..
Dates: July 15-19
Where: Children's Museum Tucson
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $200. 200 for 5 days
Description: Learn and explore about the wonders of Arizona on this imaginary roadtrip around our incredible state and the many fun experiences that it offers! More..
Dates: July 1-3
Where: Children's Museum Tucson
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $175. 175 for three days plus Campers will also receive a Family Pass (2 adults and up to 3 children) for the Children's Museum Tucson to use on July 4 or 5
Description: Use your creativity and critical thinking during this week-long STEM camp where campers will have the opportunity to explore different building techniques in a classroom full of LEGO parts. More..
Dates: July 1-3
Where: Children's Museum Tucson
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $175. 175 for three days plus Campers will also receive a Family Pass (2 adults and up to 3 children) for the Children's Museum Tucson to use on July 4 or 5
Description: Use your creativity and critical thinking during this week-long STEM camp where campers will have the opportunity to explore different building techniques in a classroom full of LEGO parts. More..
Dates: June 3-7
Where: Ben's Bells
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Cost: $155/week
Description: Camp Kind is a weeklong experience for kids who want to learn more about intentional kindness and practice it as a skill throughout the year. Activities include creative crafts, engaging stories, and Ben’s Bells ceramic studio projects. Discover the impact More..
Dates: June 17-21
Where: Ben's Bells
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Cost: $155/week
Description: Camp Kind is a weeklong experience for kids who want to learn more about intentional kindness and practice it as a skill throughout the year. Activities include creative crafts, engaging stories, and Ben’s Bells ceramic studio projects. Discover the impact More..
Dates: June 10-14
Where: Ben's Bells
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Cost: $155/week
Description: Camp Kind is a weeklong experience for kids who want to learn more about intentional kindness and practice it as a skill throughout the year. Activities include creative crafts, engaging stories, and Ben’s Bells ceramic studio projects. Discover the impact More..
Dates: June 24-28
Where: Ben's Bells
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Cost: $155/week
Description: Camp Kind is a weeklong experience for kids who want to learn more about intentional kindness and practice it as a skill throughout the year. Activities include creative crafts, engaging stories, and Ben’s Bells ceramic studio projects. Discover the impact More..
Dates: June 3-7; June 10-14; June 17-21; June 24-28; July 1-5; July 8-12; July 15-19; July 22-26
Where: The Circus and Aerial Academy of Tucson
Hours: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Cost: $300 dollars per week
Description: Circus camp for beginners and experienced students. Campers learn tumbling, juggling, plates, diabolo, poi, aerial silks, trapeze, tightrope, stilts, theater and more! Last two weeks of July is Advanced Camp. More..
Climbing Tree Community School Summer Camp
Dates: May 28-31; June 3-7; June 10-14; June 17-21; June 24-28; July 1-5; July 8-12; July 15-19
Where: Climbing Tree Community School @Blenman Elementary
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Cost: Half day: $160. Full day: $200. Extended day: $225
Description: Our play-based summer camp program is for children turning 3 by May through age 6 (rising 1st grader). Children are engaged in free choice activities and enrichment classes such as cooking, music, and art. Free choice activities include arts & crafts, More..
Dates: May 28-31; June 3-7; June 10-14; June 17-18; June 20-21; June 24-28; July 1-3; July 5; July 8-12; July 15-18
Where: Climbing Tree Community School @Blenman Elementary
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Cost: $225. Half-day (8:30-12:30): 160/week. Full-day (8:30-3:30): 200/week. Extended day (8:30-4:30): 225/week.
Description: Our program is tailored specifically for preschool through kindergarten-aged children, providing a safe, nurturing, and engaging environment for them to explore, learn, and grow. Activities include outdoor adventures, arts & crafts, music & movement, cooking adventures and water play. More..
Dates: June 17-21
Where: Children's Museum Tucson
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $200. 200 for 5 days
Description: Give new and exciting new uses to recycled materials by creating fun and exciting 3D art pieces. More..
Dates: June 10-14
Where: Children's Museum Tucson
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $200. 200 for 5 days
Description: Dig in to all the fun activities and exploration regarding dinosaurs, fossils and more! More..
Dungeons and Dragons Game Camp
Dates: July 15-19; July 29 - August 2
Where: Troubadour Theatre
Hours: 12:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Cost: $175. per week
Description: Students will learn about the game of Dungeons & Dragons, and participate in an epic game campaign lead by an expert Dungeon Master. The two weeks are two separate sessions. More..
Dungeons and Dragons Game Camp
Dates: July 15-19
Where: Troubadour Theatre
Hours: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Cost: $175. for week session
Description: Play the classic role playing game in an epic campaign led by an expert Dungeon Master. Assistance will be give to new students in learning the game and creating characters. More..
First Spotlight: Young Actors Camp
Dates: June 17-21; June 24-28
Where: Troubadour Theatre
Hours: 12:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Cost: $325. full 2 week session
Description: Students will learn about acting, play theatre and improv games, and rehearse a play to be performed live on the last day of camp. This year's play will be "The Velveteen Rabbit". More..
Dates: June 17-21
Where: Presidio Museum
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Cost: $265.00 per child for a week and a 0% discount for siblings.
Description: Hands-on activities and presentations such as O'odham pottery making, atlatl throwing, tasting foods such as prickly pear fruit, etc… Will focus on the people who built Tucson. Guest presenters may include the Tohono O’odham Nation, Pascua Yaqui Tribe, and more! More..
Dates: June 3-7; June 10-14; June 17-21; June 24-28
Where: Flandrau Science Center & Planetarium
Hours: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Cost: $395. Cost per week
Description: Flandrau's summer program is filled with science and excitement! Undersea adventures, engineering challenges, galactic explorations, and more await your kids. Camps are offered weekly for 1st through 5th graders and include hands-on workshops and fun planetarium shows (and a water More..
Grease (Full-length Production) - Musical Theatre Camp (Grades 7-12)
Dates: July 1-3; July 5; July 8-12; July 15-19; July 22
Where: Arts Express Theatre
Hours: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Cost: Full Day Program: $775.00 (Early Bird Discounted Tuition of $725.00 available through 4/15/24 only)
Description: SHOW DATES: July 23, 24 and 25 at 7:00PM Grease is THE WORD this summer! Join the duck-tailed Burger Palace Boys and the gum-snapping Pink Ladies in bobby sox and pedal pushers and bop along to hit songs like Greased Lightnin’, More..
Dates: June 3-7
Where: Presidio Museum
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Cost: $265.00 per child for a week and a 10% discount for siblings.
Description: Have you ever wondered how archaeologists and historians use the rings in wood to find out how old something is or how people of the past made so many different colors from Cochineal beetles? Well now you can find out! More..
Health & Wellness Exploration Summer Camp
Dates: June 24; June 28
Where: Thornhill Lopez Center on 4th
Hours: 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Cost: $0. Free
Description: All youth are invited to engage in a LGBTQ+ affirming camp exploring health and wellness. Campers will develop their voice and gain confidence by learning to navigate complex topics (sexual health, relationships, mental health) in a youth-centered, supportive, safe, and More..
Health & Wellness Exploration Summer Camp
Dates: July 15; July 19
Where: Thornhill Lopez Center on 4th
Hours: 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Cost: $0. Free
Description: All youth are invited to engage in a LGBTQ+ affirming camp exploring health and wellness. Campers will develop their voice and gain confidence by learning to navigate complex topics (sexual health, relationships, mental health) in a youth-centered, supportive, safe, and More..
High Flyin' Arts Summer Camp 2024
Dates: May 28-31; June 3-7
Where: sYnapse at Studio Y
Hours: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Cost: $450. Cost for full session
Description: ZUZI! Dance's literacy-based High Flyin’ Arts summer camp allows students to explore the dramatic and visual arts of aerial low flying trapeze, creative dance, and various forms of artwork. This year’s camp is based on the children’s story Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters More..
Dates: June 24-28
Where: Children's Museum Tucson
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $200. 200 for 5 days
Description: Rock on with fun and interactive activities and crafts around music, rhythm, and movement! More..
Dates: June 10-14
Where: Presidio Museum
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Cost: $265.00 per child for a week
Description: Join us to find out what life was really like from 1775-1912 and some of the changes they experience . You may also learn how to use a telegraph and when ice cream first came to Tucson! More..
Madagascar Jr. – A Musical Theatre Adventure Camp (Grades 2-10)
Dates: June 10-14; June 17-21; June 24-27
Where: Arts Express Theatre
Hours: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Cost: Full Day Program: $775.00 (Early Bird Discounted Tuition of $725.00 available through 4/15/24 only)
Description: SHOW DATES: June 28 at 6:30PM and June 29 at 2:00PM Join Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, Gloria the hip hip Hippo and, of course, those hilarious, plotting penguins as they bound onto your stage in the More..
Dates: June 3-7; June 10-14; June 17-21; June 24-28; July 1-5; July 8-12; July 15-19; July 22-26
Where: Ott Family YMCA
Hours: 7 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Cost: $170/week for Y facility members $190/week for Y program members
Description: Unleash Summer Thrills at YMCA’s Unforgettable Summer Day Camp! Join us for eight weeks packed with boundless excitement, perfect for kids seeking endless fun! Our themed weeks led by vibrant, skilled teams promise an adventure-filled experience. From thrilling games, water-based More..
Dates: May 28-31
Where: Children's Museum Tucson
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $180. 180 for a 4-day camp
Description: Print making combined with some mixed media art will lead to artistic creations for children 7 to 10 years old! More..
Dates: May 28-31; June 3-7; June 10-14; June 17-21; June 24-28; July 1-5; July 8-12; July 15-19; July 22-26; July 29 - August 2; August 5-9
Where: Playformance
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Cost: $375.
Description: At Playformance, children, ages 6-14, connect, learn, and PLAY through our active and engaging day camp. We offer a wide variety of physical play and activities designed for children of all temperaments and athletic inclination. From parkour to arts and More..
Rising Stars Young Actors Camp
Dates: July 8-12
Where: Troubadour Theatre
Hours: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Cost: $150. for the 1 week session
Description: Students will learn about acting, play theatre and improv games, and perform a short play based on a narrated story for family and friends. More..
Dates: June 3-7; June 10-14; June 17-21; June 24-28; July 8-12; July 15-19; July 22-26
Where: School of Rock Tucson
Hours: 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Cost: $550.
Description: Want to play in a band onstage? Our Rock 101 camp is designed for beginners 7-12 years of age. No experience necessary! Students will explore their instruments through musical games and activities. Students will learn songs by artists such as More..
Rock, Roll, Repeat! A Rock n Roll Music Camp
Dates: June 17-21; June 24-28
Where: Troubadour Theatre
Hours: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Cost: $250. full 2 week session
Description: Students will together form a band, write their own set list, and rehearse a rock concert to be performed live on the last day of camp. Musicians are required to have taken some lessons prior to camp, whether that's More..
Dates: July 22-26
Where: Children's Museum Tucson
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $200. 200 for 5 days
Description: Gear up for the school year with us as we brush up on our ABCs and 123s. We will focus on school-appropriate academic skills and socio-emotional skills as we countdown our back to school! More..
Sew to Grow Summer Camp WK7-Back to School
Dates: July 22-25
Where: This n' That Creative Studio
Hours: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Cost: $275. 245/per camper early bird pricing thru 4/30
Description: Get ready for school with our Back to School Sewing Camp! Craft stylish accessories and functional supplies while learning valuable sewing skills. More..
Sew to Grow Summer Camp WK4-Cozy Creations
Dates: June 24-27
Where: This n' That Creative Studio
Hours: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Cost: $275. 245/per camper early bird pricing thru 4/30
Description: Sew to Grow Summer Camp Week 4(June 24th-June 27th)-Cozy Creations: Get cozy with sewing projects designed for relaxation and comfort! Campers will create items that bring warmth and comfort to their everyday lives. More..
Sew to Grow Summer Camp WK6-Creative Spaces
Dates: July 15-18
Where: This n' That Creative Studio
Hours: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Cost: $275. 245/per camper early bird pricing thru 4/30
Description: Transform your space with DIY room décor projects that reflect your personal style and creativity! Campers will create items to decorate their bedrooms and living spaces. More..
Sew to Grow Summer Camp WK3-DIY Fashion Design
Dates: June 17-21
Where: This n' That Creative Studio
Hours: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Cost: $500. 480/per camper early bird pricing thru 4/30
Description: Join DIY Fashion Design (Style Savvy)! Campers craft stylish wear, learn sewing basics, and showcase their creations in a finale fashion show! More..
Sew to Grow Summer Camp WK2-Foodie Fun
Dates: June 10-13
Where: This n' That Creative Studio
Hours: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Cost: $275. 245/per camper early bird pricing thru 4/30
Description: Culinary Creations (Foodie Fun) Description: Explore the delicious world of food through sewing projects inspired by culinary delights! Campers will create food-themed items that look good enough to eat. More..
Sew to Grow Summer Camp WK 1-Oh Sew Simple!
Dates: June 3-6
Where: This n' That Creative Studio
Hours: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Cost: $275. 245/per camper early bird pricing thru 4/30
Description: Embark on a sewing journey! In the first week, campers will grasp sewing essentials, from threading needles to mastering stitches. They'll create simple yet practical projects like tote bags, bookmarks, and pillowcases, boosting skills and creativity. More..
Sew to Grow Summer Camp WK5-Sunny Stitches
Dates: July 8-11
Where: This n' That Creative Studio
Hours: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Cost: $275. 245/per camper early bird pricing thru 4/30
Description: Dive into the sun, sand, and surf with our Sunny Stitches sewing week! Campers will create a variety of beach-themed projects perfect for a day by the shore. More..
Dates: June 10; June 14; June 18-20; June 25-27; July 8; July 12; July 16-18; July 23-25
Where: The University of Arizona, College of Engineering
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Cost: There is a nonrefundable $50 application fee. The Experience Engineering Programs are $750 and the 3-day Day Programs are $300, payable upon acceptance. Need-based scholarships are available.
Description: Explore Engineering at the University of Arizona during the Summer Engineering Academy (SEA). Learn from UA faculty and students, solve problems, and have fun! More..
Dates: June 3-7; June 10-14; June 17-21; June 24-28; July 1-5; July 8-12; July 15-19; July 22-26; July 29 - August 2
Where: Tucson Museum of Art's education building
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Cost: $250-$310
Description: Draw, paint, sculpt, collage, print and more at the Tucson Museum of Art. Each weekly session is led by local teaching artists and art educators focusing on in-depth lessons in art making. Classes are inspired by the permanent collection More..
Dates: June 24
Where: Over the Moon Pediatric Therapy
Hours: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Cost: $750 per week; M-Th (except Friday July 5th as we are closed July 4th for Independence Day); 2 week sessions June 24-July 5 and/or July 8-18
Description: Our program includes a handwriting morning intensive and afternoons will include teaching self regulation skills, meeting sensory needs and offer motor development opportunities. Come join our 1:4 ratio summer program for 2 weeks or all 4 weeks! More..
Dates: June 3-7; June 10-14; June 17-21; June 24-28; July 1-5; July 8-12; July 15-19
Where: Booth-Fickett K-8
Hours: 7 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Cost: $170/week for Y facility members $190/week for Y program members
Description: Unleash Summer Thrills at YMCA’s Unforgettable Summer Day Camp! Join us for eight weeks packed with boundless excitement, perfect for kids seeking endless fun! Our themed weeks led by vibrant, skilled teams promise an adventure-filled experience. From thrilling games, water-based More..